On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 06:54:20AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 02:39:14 +0000, Faheem Mitha wrote: > > > On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 18:00:51 -0500, Paul Morgan <paulswm@earthlink.net> wrote: > > >> > >> Running "mount", as you suggest, will tell you with which options the FS > >> was mounted, including the journaling mode. > > > > It just seems to echo what is in /etc/fstab. I wanted something which > > actually went and checked the partitions. > > > > BTW, I was under the impression that it was necessary to specify the > > mounting of root (/) at boot time, in the grub menu or some such, > > rather than /etc/fstab. I was just looking at stuff which suggested > > this may not be necessary. Can anyone point me to a definitive > > reference on this? > > > > Like I said, running "mount" will tell you how the FS is mounted. It does > not "echo what is in /etc/fstab". When it mounts an FS, it writes an > entry in /etc/mtab describing the mount. Of course it's going to look > similar to the fstab entry because the fstab entry tells it how it should > be mounted! /proc/self/mounts might be useful, too? -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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